Page 171 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

Lucy
Lucy
This is the name of the famous fossil
discovered in 1974 by the American an-
thropologist Donald Johanson. Many
evolutionists have claimed that Lucy is a
transitional form between man and his
so-called ape-like ancestors. Subsequent
studies, however, revealed that Lucy was
merely an extinct species of ape.
Lucy represents a species belonging
to the genus Australopithecus—an ape
genus referred to earlier which has been revealed to have nothing to do
with human evolution. This particular species (Australopithecus afaren-
sis) has a brain the same size as that of chimpanzees, and its ribs and
jawbone are exactly the same as those of present-day chimpanzees. Its
arms and legs show that the creature walked in the same way as a chim-
panzee. Even its pelvis resembles that of chimpanzees. 148
Again, though evolutionists point to the ape-like features of crea-
tures belonging to the
Australopithecus group, of
which Lucy is a part, they
maintain that it had a
human-like posture and gait.
Yet research has shown that
this is not the case. The
Harvard anthropologist
William Howells writes that

Donald Johanson (right), finder
of the fossil “Lucy,” examining
another Australopithecus
afarensis fossil.

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